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stony, with quantities of decayed vegetable on the surface and rather stiff soil underneath. On Forest 
Reserve 1,662, County of Clarke, there is a large quantity growing, some of which was cut in 1892 by 
men who had been bridge-building all over the Colony, who informed me that this particular lot was the 
best quality they had come across. This is produced on the high land about 2,400 feet above sea-level. 
It is distributed over a large area of the more open country under the Falls, but does not reach the size it 
does where better protected and the soil is richer.—(Late Forester R. L. Siddins, of Armidale.) 
It is found all along the eastern slopes of the New England Table-land in fair quantity and good 
quality. It prefers a somewhat heavy soil. It is hardly ever found on granite formation, that is, where 
the soil is light and sandy.—(Forest Guard N. Stewart, Glen Innes.) 
Tallow-wood, with the exception of the Common Box, grows more abundantly in this district than 
perhaps any other Eucalypt. It is found uniformly distributed through all forest land at about four trees 
to the acre. Other hardwoods are generally in patches, or favour certain spurs, but one never goes many 
yards in forest land without finding several of these trees.—(Forester W. P. Pope, late of Murwillumbah.) 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 144. 
a. Juvenile leaf. 
B. Flowering twig. 
c. Fruit from Booral. 
d. Fruit from Woolgoolga, showing slightly exserted valves. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Tallow-wood tree, Manning River.—(Kerry & Co. photo.) 
Group of logs of E. microcorys on tramway line, Lansdowne River. 
Tallow-wood Glen Innes.—(Forest Guard Stewart, photo.) 
